AutoPOI: automated points of interest selection for side-channel analysis

Template attacks (TAs) are one of the most powerful side-channel analysis (SCA) attacks. The success of such attacks relies on the effectiveness of the profiling model in modeling the leakage information. A crucial step for TA is to select relevant features from the measured traces, often called points of interest (POIs), to extract the...

Points of Interest (POI): a commentary on the state of the art, challenges, and prospects for the future

In this commentary, we describe the current state of the art of points of interest (POIs) as digital, spatial datasets, both in terms of their quality and affordings, and how they are used across research domains. We argue that good spatial coverage and high-quality POI features — especially POI category and temporality information — are key for...

Assessing the influence of point-of-interest features on the classification of place categories

Points of interest (POIs) digitally represent real-world amenities as point locations. POI categories (e.g. restaurant, hotel, museum etc.) play a prominent role in several location-based applications such as social media, navigation, recommender systems, geographic information retrieval tools, and travel-related services. The majority of user...

ST-Sem: A Multimodal Method for Points-of-Interest Classification Using Street-Level Imagery

Street-level imagery contains a variety of visual information about the facades of Points of Interest (POIs). In addition to general mor- phological features, signs on the facades of, primarily, business-related POIs could be a valuable source of information about the type and iden- tity of a POI. Recent advancements in computer vision could...

Extraction and combination of multidimensional point-of-interest features for the classification of urban place types

The digital representations of physical places, known as Points-Of-Interest (POIs), have been the core element of various studies and platforms such as online mapping services (e.g. Google Maps) and location based social networks (e.g. Foursquare). The use of POIs as proxies of the real-world-places facilitates the study of places, urban...

Navigation to a human in motion by using points of interest

Navigating to a human target is underexposed in the current literature. However, there are cases where it is necessary to get to the moving target as fast as possible. This thesis supports navigation of a person to another person in motion that they lost or need. In this way, children, elderly, family, coworkers and friends could be found more...